Monday, September 26, 2005

A good fake Muslima

As long as I can think back I was an agnostic, Russelian sense. My parents were atheists and my father made quite sure I wouldn't fall for any religious sermons at school. And I didn't become a Muslima because I suddenly became religious or wanted to be pious. Actually, I only became a Muslima because my husband asked me to. His family insisted on it, and while he wasn't willing to demand it from me he made quite sure that he would love me to convert. He had been a rebel all his life and he was tired of it. He wanted to go home, settle down and live in peace with his family after all the fights he gave them during his younger years. The older he became the more did Islam mean to him.

I hadn't problems respecting Islam. Unlike Christianity it doesn't come along with a shameful history and more skeletons in the cellar than the human mind can imagine. It might have had its fair share of idiots and culprits marching over dead bodies in order to conquer new grounds but compared to Christianity their numbers were small. Throughout centuries, Islam presented itself as an enlightened and rather peaceful religion. Arts and science blossomed. Just compare Muslim Spain to medieval Europe, or think of the tolerance Islam used to have for other 'people of the book'. Both Christians and Jews could live in an Islamic surrounding without getting harmed. They were demanded not to spread their religion around, and they had to pay a special tax. Compared to the Christian habit of burning this was of course barbaric. As my husband once pointed out, if America would have been conquered by Arabs the natives would nowadays run around in thobes and go to the mosque at friday. Unfortunatley for them they were conquered by good Christians which is why they are more or less extinct except for a few miserable remains in socalled 'reservations'.

15 Comments:

"The dress code was new to me but rarely something religious. As said in a previous post, wearing the abaya is more a tradition than anything else, and when it comes to the rest of my wardrobe I never have been fashionable, anyway"

Where to begin fisking. oh where to begin?

"Throughout centuries, Islam presented itself as an enlightened and rather peaceful religion"

"The reason for the hatred of Jews in the Arab world is, of course, Israel. Considering the history of this state the animosity is well understandable, no one with a minimum of ethics left can possibly applaud Israeli politics."

Nothing like a thorough understanding of Middle East politics. She previously appologized for the German genocide of Jews - gee anyone wonder why they may want their own state.

"Running around on a Saudi street without the abaya is something akin to visiting the Cologne philharmony in your nightie, I guess I would be ashamed of doing either one."

No comment necessary.

"Well, so much fuss about the abaya when it is just a dress, more a traditional dress but a religious one. Sure one can complain about the fact that women in Saudi are obliged to wear it when outside, but what makes it so hard to just accept it"

"One thing that always strikes me is watching women when flying out of Saudi Arabia. The plane has scarcely left the ground and everybody hops up to get rid of their outer wear."

This woman is a dumb-as*. There are more indians in America today then there were 300 years ago. And they aren't STUCK on reservations.Her husband is also an arrogant dumb-sh*t. She really thinks she is more hot than, and superior, to everyone. I'm glad she got stuck with a mohammedan-serves her right.

Amazing. Much of the slaughter of the American Indians came as a result of the introduction of diseases, such as smallpox, which was by no means intentional. And then again, the fact that there are so few American Indians of "pure blood" can also be explained that many of them blended into the predominently European descended population. I have red hair and gray eyes but I have (according to US government standards) enough "Indian blood" to be considered one. What in hell does it matter? Why should it? The fact that many "white" and "black" Americans have Indian ancestors seems to be lost on many enlightened Europeans.

I hear that many Europeans think Americans are incredibly ignorant about the rest of the world. This is true. But the idea that Europeans in general are not is ridiculous. When I read translations of mainstream European media regarding America, I can barely believe that anyone could be so clueless and ignorant. If this is the case for a culture that only split off from Europe a few scant centuries ago, one wonders how accurate their perceptions are regarding the cultures of Africa and Asia.

Relax Tcobb. you're wrong about your assertions. Personally All this "who's what.. my ancestry is..DNA blah blah blah" is crapolla. I may not be "european" (I'm British) but I can tell ya you're wrong about this stuff. God you should see me ;>D.BTW Red hair's cool. Bigger and stronger than blondes and brunettes apparently.

This is the kind of crap that is passed on as education today at some American universities. This Muslima should read the Quran and find out what it actually contains.

(1) the right to have sex with slave girls.

(2) the practice of coitus interruptus so as not to reduce the value of the slave girls.

(3) Muhammad's murder of the Jewish tribes in Arabia.

Then she could read about actual Muslim history such as that described by true historians such as Robert Spencer instead of the phony PC crap that is pulled.

Now with respect to the American native tribes, there are several causes as to why the native population was reduced and they do not point to massacre:

(1) many women of the native population married into the Europeans who came to America. Pochahantas went back to England.

(2) the natives did not have built in immunity to many diseases that were carried by the Europeans. Thus, a disease that might kill 1 in 50 Europeans would kill a much greater proportion of native Americans.

The native American population was a population besieged by warfare among the tribes. The natives of Quebec wanted the French to help them in their defense against the dreaded Iroquois. The Iroquouis fought on the British side in the French-Indian War because the French had aligned with their enemies. The native tribes didn't see the world as the white man versus the natives. They saw a world where they were besieged by the Iroquois so they looked to the French and asked for assistance. Many married the French settlers who came.

Re: Indian warfare. You are correct - indeed it was the Iroquois who wiped out the Hurons to a person (a genocide). The Hurons, who were allied with the French, were already weakened by disease (influenza and/or smallpox) and were wiped out at their settlement near Georgian Bay.

When Cortes finally attacked Tenochtitlan (the Aztec capital), he required the assistance of his allies from Tlaxcala:

"Following this defeat, the Tlaxcalan lords decided to welcome Cortés to their territory, hoping to enlist the fierce Spaniards in their bitter struggle with Montezuma. The rest is history. Cortés and his men went on to subdue the powerful Aztec empire ­ a stunning feat he accomplished only with the support and guidance of his Tlaxcalan allies."

Teratism, Tcobb is right about a lot of Americans having Native American ancestors. It's extremely common in the Southeast. My dad has been working on the genealogy of my family, and he’s found six Native Americans so far. There was a lot of inter-marriage between early settlers and the local Indians. By the 1840s close to half of the members of the Cherokee tribe in Georgia were mixed race.

Also, this isn't the first time I have heard a German say something like the lady in the post did. I've noticed some Germans like to harp on the "mistreatment of Native Americans," especially when someone brings up the holocaust. I think it’s a way for Germans to deflect criticism by trying to make Americans look just as guilty.